His numbers are better than ever. Wilson has completed 73.1 percent of his passes. He’s averaging nine yards per passing attempt. He has 12 touchdown passes and no interceptions. And his passer rating stands at 126.3.

On Thursday night, he seemed to reach an even higher level, starting with the needle-threading throw to Tyler Lockett and continuing with multiple examples of gyrating away from pressure but also delivering accurate throws to receivers who inevitably become wide-ass open thanks to Wilson’s extension of the play.

“I can’t even remember all those plays,” coach Pete Carroll told reporters after the game. “There’s so many plays. I’m thinking, ‘Russ, get down!’ And all of a sudden he pops out and he’s still going, and we start over again. And then he finds somebody and makes a 20-yard play. Must have happened five or six times tonight.

“ I thought he was spectacular. I don’t remember him being that on, that thoroughly in the game in really difficult situations. It wasn’t just a classic in-the-pocket-throw-the-football. He was having to create and do stuff all night long. I thought his play was exquisite, awesome.”

Indeed it was. While Mahomes may ultimately become the unanimous MVP, Wilson deserves to be in the conversation. And maybe one of them eventually will be the Super Bowl MVP, in a game played against the other.

credit goes to Wilson for last night’s win. His scrambling and threat of scrambling created opportunities for receivers to be open for big gains. He may have done it once too many because he tried to do it on third and 2 with time running out, instead of giving the ball to Chris Collins up the middle. The play lost 8 yards when Tyler Lockett was tackled for a loss. Instead of running out the clock, they had to punt, and I can see from Petey’s facial expression that he was worried that the game would be lost. A quarterback like Goff can march his team downfield and kick a winning field goal easily. Without Wilson’s scrambling, the Seagulls could easily be 0-4 insead of 3-1. There is a good case to be made that he is deserving of being MVP, if he can keeping performing these miracles. If his team misses the playoffs, there is not a snowball’s chance in Hawaii that he will be voted MVP.

Dak took out poor ‘ole Russel in the playoffs last year. Handed them the “L” himself as he lead the Cowboys to a convincing late 4th quarter comeback win.

I watched Wilson play. He was aided time again by the refs, much like Brady. This is the NFL’s version of picking their own hero/poster-child. When they play defenses that don’t regularly give up 50 points like the Rams, it will be apparent that Wilson is nothing more than a media and ref darling who is gifted so many additional opportunities until it eventually works.

Russell Wilson cares about padding his stats, that’s why he is looking so good. This is a guy who wants to throw TDs at the 1 yard line instead of handing it off to his RBs, who have a combined total of 3 rushing TDs on the season. Just think, if he cared more about winning he would have handed it off to Marshawn Lynch…

spartan01 says:
October 4, 2019 at 10:16 am
At this point in the season why wouldn’t the top 5 QBs be there? Goff, Mahomes, Wilson, Ryan, and Rivers lead the league in yards. A lot can happen with 12 more regular season games to play.
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Dude you need to check your stats every once in awhile Andy Dalton is in the top 5 for most yards.

Seattle fans have long known RW is a great QB worthy of the MVP discussion. The majority of the NFL fans and media just ignore him or dismiss him because of prejudices against Seattle and the fact he isn’t on TV starring in insurance commercials.

You can be sure the players and coaches in the NFL know how good he is.

I suppose. He’s good, but what I saw last night was a lot of his receivers having to stop, turn around, and wait for his passes to arrive, which made for some first downs but hardly any receivers hit in stride and fewer YAC as a result.

I’m not sure why the Rams didn’t adapt to this better, because they were fairly easy throws made to targets who had stopped running. Apart from that “throw it to the back corner of the end zone and hope for the best” catch that was more about Lockett than Wilson, I didn’t see much that looked like highly skilled passing. Extending plays and the Rams not defending predictable throws is what I saw.

Seahawks and Wilson are good, but let’s be honest – without that missed FG at the end, we’d be talking about the lack of 3rd down conversions and the missed chances instead of “MVP”.

Mahomes definitely should be in discussion and so should Wilson. I just look at this way: if Wilson wasn’t on the field and Geno Smith was, would they be 4-1? of course not. They probably would be 2-3 or 1-4. That’s how valuable Wilson is to the team. And where would KC be without Mahomes? Those two are just so fantastic to watch and make the NFL more fun, so we’re lucky they are playing. Can you imagine if the league was just a bunch of Kirk Cousins?

Seattle isn’t a huge media capitol, so Russell Wilson kind of flies under the radar. But if you wanted to put together a list on the most valuable players over the past 5-8 years, Wilson would be right behind Tom Brady.

Watch out Steve Young, Russell Wilson is coming for the title of “Best dual-threat QB of all time”
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John Elway laughed at this
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Why would Elway laugh? Steve Young rushed for more yards than Elway, and a higher average, in the regular season and playoffs, in spite of being a starter for far fewer years than Elway in the NFL. Elway threw for more yards, and had far more abysmal games than Young but, again, Elway played for more years.

Both great QB athletes, both dual threats, yet the only thing they really have in common is that they both needed their respective teams to cheat on the salary cap, and other ways, in order to win a Super Bowl as starters with their teams.

kevpft says:
October 4, 2019 at 11:20 am
I suppose. He’s good, but what I saw last night was a lot of his receivers having to stop, turn around, and wait for his passes to arrive, which made for some first downs but hardly any receivers hit in stride and fewer YAC as a result.

I’m not sure why the Rams didn’t adapt to this better, because they were fairly easy throws made to targets who had stopped running. Apart from that “throw it to the back corner of the end zone and hope for the best” catch that was more about Lockett than Wilson, I didn’t see much that looked like highly skilled passing. Extending plays and the Rams not defending predictable throws is what I saw.

Seahawks and Wilson are good, but let’s be honest – without that missed FG at the end, we’d be talking about the lack of 3rd down conversions and the missed chances instead of “MVP”.

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Point taken, but…..

Consider that he’s playing behind a O-line that wouldn’t be good ion a D1 college team. If he had a middle of the road NFL O-line, he’d be an assassin.

Wilson has never had a complete O-line in his NFL career. He’s has some good pieces at times (1-2 good players), but never a complete unit.

It is unlikely but if McCaffery can continue to carry the Panthers to wins, breaks the scrimmage yard record and becomes one of very few RBs to break the 1000/1000 threshold then he at least has to be in the conversation.

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spartan01 says:
October 4, 2019 at 10:16 am
At this point in the season why wouldn’t the top 5 QBs be there? Goff, Mahomes, Wilson, Ryan, and Rivers lead the league in yards. A lot can happen with 12 more regular season games to play.
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Dude you need to check your stats every once in awhile Andy Dalton is in the top 5 for most yards.
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Dalton is 7th in yards according to nfl.com which I checked this morning. Dude.

Wilson is good at improvising, using his scrambling ability to get receivers open or to run for chunks of yardage. If he just plays like a regular NFL quarterback, then he will flop just like the ears of a Labrador retreiver.

Loved Danger Russ as a Badger, knew he would beat out Matt Flynn, he is elite but cmon….its week 5
and the Claymaker must think he is in the twilight zone with what is and what is not roughing the passer.